Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God;

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou hast not chosen, neither delighted in, which are offered by the law:

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

You blind men! which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred?

So I have thought it necessary to urge these brothers to visit you ahead of me and get your promised love-offering ready beforehand, so as to have it ready as a real love-offering, not as one grasped and grudgingly given.

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure [from this world] is at hand and I will soon go free.

It is through that divine will that we have been set free from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice once for all.

For by a single offering He has for ever completed the blessing for those whom He is setting free from sin.

"Sacrifice and offering you did not wish, but a body you have prepared for me; in burnt-offerings and sin-offerings you never took delight.

leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.